About 20 AVIs to go through today from last nights observing ( 19east to 24.5 west) , which yielded over two dozen geosats , including the Astra's , Hotbirds and Amos duo ( 4 west)....many of which were imaged going into shadow.I also caught sight of a spin stabilised Meteosat bird at zero degrees.....which was much dimmer than the conventional "winged" sats Priority however is given to the mover at 8 west. The animation can be found here.............. http://mysite.freeserve.com/satcom_transits/8wmoverbw.gif I have left it at 4.5 mb in order to give as much detail as possible. It is made up of a selection of 10 second frames.FOV 30 arc minutes. On the right is 24209 1996-044B Telecom 2D , on the left (east) is 26927 01042A Atlantic Bird 2 . Above is the mover. (North is up ) Notice how the mover , although in the same apparent position as Telecom 2D , goes into shadow some time before it....followed by AB2 then T2D Here's the camera log for the period covered , give or take a few seconds.... A quick search through Ted's Geolong programme provides no clues as to which bird this is , despite the accuracy of the images.I have not as yet looked at recent launches. Could this be the same object as observed on Feb 21st 2004 I wonder? ( See http://mysite.freeserve.com/satcom_transits/object.gif ) John. 0005. 17/03/2004 23:59:39; 10.19s; AMP_ON 0006. 17/03/2004 23:59:50; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0007. 18/03/2004 00:00:01; 10.18s; AMP_ON 0008. 18/03/2004 00:00:12; 10.21s; AMP_ON 0009. 18/03/2004 00:00:23; 10.42s; AMP_ON 0010. 18/03/2004 00:00:34; 10.19s; AMP_ON 0011. 18/03/2004 00:00:45; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0012. 18/03/2004 00:00:56; 10.18s; AMP_ON 0013. 18/03/2004 00:01:07; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0014. 18/03/2004 00:01:18; 10.19s; AMP_ON 0015. 18/03/2004 00:01:29; 10.19s; AMP_ON 0016. 18/03/2004 00:01:40; 10.21s; AMP_ON 0017. 18/03/2004 00:01:51; 10.19s; AMP_ON 0018. 18/03/2004 00:02:02; 10.17s; AMP_ON 0019. 18/03/2004 00:02:13; 10.19s; AMP_ON 0020. 18/03/2004 00:02:23; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0021. 18/03/2004 00:02:34; 10.21s; AMP_ON 0022. 18/03/2004 00:02:45; 10.23s; AMP_ON 0023. 18/03/2004 00:02:56; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0024. 18/03/2004 00:03:07; 10.17s; AMP_ON 0025. 18/03/2004 00:03:18; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0026. 18/03/2004 00:03:29; 10.17s; AMP_ON 0027. 18/03/2004 00:03:40; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0028. 18/03/2004 00:03:51; 10.39s; AMP_ON 0029. 18/03/2004 00:04:02; 10.06s; AMP_ON 0030. 18/03/2004 00:04:13; 10.21s; AMP_ON 0031. 18/03/2004 00:04:24; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0032. 18/03/2004 00:04:35; 10.19s; AMP_ON 0033. 18/03/2004 00:04:46; 10.19s; AMP_ON 0034. 18/03/2004 00:04:57; 10.21s; AMP_ON 0035. 18/03/2004 00:05:08; 10.19s; AMP_ON 0036. 18/03/2004 00:05:19; 10.21s; AMP_ON 0037. 18/03/2004 00:05:29; 10.18s; AMP_ON 0038. 18/03/2004 00:05:40; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0039. 18/03/2004 00:05:51; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0040. 18/03/2004 00:06:02; 10.20s; AMP_ON 0041. 18/03/2004 00:06:13; 10.19s; AMP_ON 0042. 18/03/2004 00:06:24; 10.21s; AMP_ON ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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